Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Young Adam (2003)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
- Evocatively set amid the grimy canal barges of post–WW2 Scotland, this follows the shady fortunes of a failed writer (McGregor), whose…
Zero Day (2003)
- Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson
- A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
'R Xmas (2002)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Lillo Brancato Jr., Drea De Matteo, Ice-T
- Familiar territory tinged with originality from bad boy dir. Ferrara, examining the unusual Christmas crises of a drug–dealing Latino couple in…
24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
9 Dead Gay Guys (Nine Dead Gay Guys) (2002)
- Dir. Lab Ky Mo
Feat. Glen Mulhern, Brendan Mackey, Steven Berkoff…
- Irreverent, often damned funny, crime comedy in which two lads stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful…
A Man Apart (2002)
- Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant
- When his wife is killed by drug–dealer types, DEA agent Vin Diesel goes into full–blown 'Charles Bronson' mode.
Despite his appealing…
A Snake of June (2002)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Asuka Kurosawa, Yuji Kohtari, Shinya Tsukamoto…
- Intriguing neo–noir psychodrama from uncompromising Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto (yes, he of the notorious TETSUO films), about a suicide…
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte…
- A smooth exercise in self–satire from dir. Lelouch, with Jeremy Irons playing a shifty jewel–thief who hooks up with lounge–singer…
Angela (2002)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Donatella Finocchiaro
- A solid, if oblique drama depicting the doings of the 1980s Sicilian Mafia as seen through the eyes of mob–wife Finocchiaro.
Although…
Assassination Tango (2002)
- Dir. Robert Duvall
Feat. Robert Duvall, Kathy Baker, Ruben Blades
- Unassuming, yet engrossing crime drama, which follows aging hitman Robert Duvall on a job in Argentina, while casually digressing into a search for…